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Collected  Sets,  Eake  Books,  Incunabula 
Manuscripts,  Scrolls. 

It  is  with  uo  little  satisfaction  and  pride  that  the 
Dutch  domines  who  make  occasional  pilgrimages  to 
the  Haram  of  the  Church  at  New  Brunswick,  con- 
template that  fine  collection  of  books  known  as  the 
Sage  Library.      The  mental  comparison   between 
the  few  volumes  that  formed   the  Seminary  library 
in  their  student  days   and  the    library   of   to-daj' 
shows  them,  better  than  anj^  statistics,  the  growth 
of   the   Church   and  the  rank   of  scholarship  now- 
required   of   those   who    would   be*  her   ministers, 
cv^      The  pride  of  the  domine  is  honest  and  with  a  sub- 
"^     stantial  basis  to  rest  upon ;    for  in  its  books,  as  in 
'      its    history,    the    Theological    Seminary    at    New 
,j^     Brunswick  stands  second  to  none.      Indeed,  it  is 
1      the   constant   comment   of   students   and    scholars 
"^    throughout  the  country  that  "  the  Sage  Library-  is 
^     tlie   best   working   seminary   library  in  the  United 
A     States";  yet,  as  is  often  the  case,  the  appreciation  of 
that  fact  has  come  to  our  own  people  last.     The  rec- 
ognition from  without  has  been  hearty,  and  perhaps 
a  few  descriptive  notes  regarding  the  chief  trf  asnres 
of  the  collection   may   lead  to   a   more   intelligent 
appreciation  from  within. 

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4  THE    SAGE    LIBRARY. 

The  history  of  the  library  is  short,  for  the  col- 
lection is  almost  entirely  of  modei-n  <^rowtli.  Prior 
to  1863,  there  was  an  omnium  gdtJierwn  of  those 
books  without  which  no  cleroyman's  library  was 
complete.  There  were  numerous  copies  of  Marck, 
Lampe,  Van  Til,  Witsius,  Ernesti,  Rosenmviller, 
Voet,  in  fact  quite  a  number  of  the  orthodox  writers 
of  the  seventeenth  and  ei^'hteeuth  centuines,  but 
little  besides.  In  1863  the  library  received  by 
bequest  3,500  volumes  from  the  library  of  Dr. 
George  W.  Bethune — a  most  valuable  accession. 
For  Dr.  Bethune  was  a  ripe  scholar  with  a  pen- 
chant for  rare  books,  and  some  of  the  volumes  from 
his  library  are  to  day  among  the  most  valuable  in 
the  present  collection.  With  the  Bethune  books  the 
library,  at  this  time,  numbered  about  8,000  volumes 
In  1870,  Dr.  James  A.  H.  Cornell,  as  the  agent  of 
the  General  Synod,  succeeded  in  raising  st)me 
$55,000  for  the  immediate  use  of  the  library  in  the 
purchase  of  bocjks.  The  expenditure  of  tliis  sum 
was  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  committee  of  eight, 
including  the  Samiaary  Fa3ulty  with  Drs.  Cham- 
bers, Hartranft,  Cooper,  and  Coi'win,  and  the  careful 
parchase  of  the  best  books  was  bagun  and  caiTied 
on  over  a  period  of  seven  years.  In  1873,  Colonel 
Gardner  A.  Sage,  of  New  York,  erected  the  tine 
library  bailding  which  now  bears  his  name,  and 
eadL)wed  it  with  funds  not  only  for  the  necessary 
expenses  of  the  institution,  but  for  the  yearly  pur- 
chase of  books.  To-day  the  collection  numbers 
40,000  carefully  selected  volumes  and  something- 
like  7,000  pamphlets,  and  is  increasing,  by  purchase 


THE    SAGE    LIBRARY.  5 

and  donation,  at  the  rate  of  nearly  a  thousand  vol- 
umes a  year. 

The   committee  on    the    selection   of    books  very 
wisely  decided  not   to  make  the  character   of   the 
library    exclusively  theological,    though    they    gave 
theological   and    Biblical  literature   the  first  place. 
Everything  in  that  department  that  was  considered 
worth  the  ha\dng  was  promptly  bought  from  the 
book  shops  of  Eui-ope,  and  especial  cai'e  was  given 
to  securing  the  large  collected  editions  of  writings 
which   are  yearly  becoming  harder  to  find  in  the 
book  markets.     At  the  same  time  secular  literature 
in  history,  philosophy,   philology,   science,   archaeol- 
ogy,  and  the   arts   was   not  neglected.       The    best 
books  on  every  subject,  whatever  their  point  of  view 
and  m  whatever  language  written,    were   secured 
with   the  central  idea  of  making  the  institution  a 
thoroughly  equipped  working  library  for  any  man- 
ner of  man   who   might  choose  to   use  it.     It  was 
fully   recognized   at  the   start   that  one    branch  of 
knowledge  cannot  be  advantageously   studied   with- 
out   many    cross-references    to    entirely   different 
branches  of  knowledge,  and  for  that  purj)0se  it  was 
tliought  best    to    make    the    library    strong   in    all 
branches.     Such  was  the  design   and  such  the  ac- 
com])lishn!ent. 

In  the  large  sets  of  collected  writings  the  library 
lias  a  notable  gathering  in  many  departments,  be- 
ginning- with  the  Migne  edition  of  the  Greek  and 
Latin  Father.s,  381  vols.;  the  Scriptui'ae  Sacrae 
Cursus  Com]iletus,  28  vols  ;  the  Theologiae  Cursus 
Conipletus,  28  vols.,  and  including  many  works  like 


6  THE    SACiE    LIBRARY. 

the  Benedictiue  edition  of  the  Fathers,  Gallandius 
Bibliotheca  Veteram    Patrum,    14    fols.;     Ugoliuus 
Thesaurus,   34  fols.;    BibHotheca  Fratrum  Polono- 
rum,    10  fols.;     Magnum   Bullarium   Romanum,   19 
fols.;    Acta  Sanctorum,   62  fols.;  the  collections  of 
Marteae  et  Durand,   Mabillon,  D'Achery,    Pezius, 
Maio,  and  others ;  the  Corpus  Inscriptionum  Latin- 
arum,  15  fols.;  Muratorius  Rerum  Italicarum  Scrip- 
tores,  2  >  fols.;  Bibliotheca  Classica  Latina,  150  vols.; 
Teubner  edition  of  the  Greek   and  Latin   Classics, 
220   vols.;    Bohn's    translations,    100    vols.;    Didot 
edition,  50  vols.;  Corpus   Scriptorum  Historiae,  By- 
zantinae,    50   vols.;    The  British  Poets,   130  vols  ; 
Oncken  Allgemeine  Weltgeschichte,  26  vols.;  Early 
English  Text  Society  publications,  70  vols.     Of  the 
collected  writings    of    individual    Latin    authors  of 
mediaeval  and    modern    times    there    are   fine   folio 
editions  of  Albertus  Magnus,  Aquinas,  S.  Ephraem 
Syri,  Cardanus,   Labbeus  et  Cossartius,   Harduinus> 
Cujacius,   Picas,    Gronovius,    Graevius,    Baronius- 
Raynal,   Ei'asmus,    Cocceius,   Fabricius,   Gersonius, 
Grotius,   Calvin,    Melancthon,    Meursius,    Zancbius 
and  others.     In  French  literature  the  entire  works 
of    writers   run  out   almost    indefinitely,    including 
Bonald,  Bonnet,  Bourdaloue,  Cjndorcet,  Condillac, 
Diderot,  Descartes,  D'Alembert,  Fenelon,  Helvetius, 
Lamennais,  Malebranche,  Massillon,   Moliere,  Mon- 
tesquieu, Pascal,  St.  Pierre,  Racine,  Rousseau,  Tur- 
got,  Volney,  Voltaire,   Cousin,  Delambre,   Laplace. 
In   the  German    the  range   of  the   library  is   even 
wider,  with  collected  sets  of  such  writers  as  Baader, 
Gellert,  Feuerbach,   Hei'bart,  Herder,  Goethe,  Les- 


THE    SAGE    LIBRARY.  7 

sing,  Meudelssolm,  the  Miillers,  Schleiermacher, 
Schelling,  Schiller,  the  Schlegels,  Ruge,  Schopen- 
hauer, Tholuck,  Fischer,  Kant,  Ritter,  Hegel,  Fichte, 
and  the  long  line  of  German  philosophers.  In  Ital- 
ian, Borghesi,  Galileo,  Bnfibn,  Vigo,  Tiraboschi, 
and  the  Italian  poets  Dante,  Ariosto,  Boiardo,  and 
others  of  their  time. 

In  Dutch  literature  the  library  is  possibly  bead 
and  shoulders  over  all  the  other  libraries  in  the 
country  put  together,  the  number  of  the  volumes 
running  up  into  the  thousands.  Many  of  these 
works  have  been  collected  from  the  Knickei'bocker 
families  througlK)ut  the  Middle  States,  and  many 
others  have  been  purchased  in  Holland.  There  are 
probably  live  hundred  volumes  that  relate  to  the 
history  of  the  Church  in  the  Netherlands,  two  hun- 
dred that  touch  upon  the  Synod  of  Dort,  and  as 
many  more  that  deal  with  the  Heidelberg  Catechism. 
The  Dutch  literature  of  a  historical,  theological,  and 
miscellaneous  character  is  too  extensive  to  admit  of 
description  here.  It  cont.ains  both  modern  and 
ancient  works  and  among  them  may  be  found  many 
volumes  of  rarity  and  value  on  account  of  their 
engravings. 

Of  Oriental  literature  there  is  a  goodly  array  of 
Arabic  books,  l)y  reason  of  that  language  being 
taught  in  the  Seminary.  Many  of  them  deal  with 
the  Kuran  in  commentaries  and  with  the  history  of 
Mahomet ;  many  treat  of  Sufism  and  the  Sufic  poets> 
the  legends  of  Tamerlane,  and  Arabic  astrononiy  ' 
many  again  are  histories  of  various  tribes,  accounts 
of    ni;iiin(;rs  ■•md    customs,  volumes   of    |)oetrv    and 


8  THE    SAGE    LIBRARY. 

stories.     lu  this  department  are  some  tweuty-five  or 
thirty  Arabic  and  Coptic  manuscripts,  dating  hack 
some  seven  or  eight  hundred  years,  and  giving  the 
forms  of  worship,   the  liturgies,  hymns  and  ceremo- 
nies of  the  Coptic  churches  of  Egypt.     In  Hebrevs^ 
such  works  as  the  Tahnuds,  the  Mischnah,  the  Tar- 
gums,  and  all  the  ancient  books  of  the  Jewish  peo- 
ple are  to  be  found  in  many  forms,  as  well  as  the 
Kabbalistic  treatises  like  the  Sohar  and  the  Sefer 
Jetsira.     The  Middle  Ago  writers,   Kimchi,    Eben 
Ezra,  Maimonides,  and  the  philologists  from  Reuch- 
lin   all  the   way   down  to  the  Hitzigs,  Fiirsts,   and 
Delitzchs.  of  today  are,  of  course,  fully  represented, 
as  the  Hebrew  language  and  literature  is  an  import- 
ant feature  of  seminary  study.     The  Syriac,  Assy- 
rian,  Hieroglyphic  and  the  Indian  literatures   are 
mainly   represented   by  the  sacred   books    and  the 
texts  prepared  by  contemporary  scholars,  of  which 
there  are  plenty  and  to  spare. 

The  curious  in  manuscripts  and  innnnahula  has 
not  been  especially  sought  after  by  the  libraiw  book 
committee,  but  much  of  it  has  come  in  in  odd  ways 
and  at  different  times.  The  oldest  manuscript  the 
library  j)ossesses  is  the  Egyptian  Book  of  the  Dead, 
written  in  the  time  of  Moses.  It  was  found  in  exca- 
vating at  Sakkara,  on  the  Lower  Nile,  a  few  years 
ago  and  secured  to  the  librai-y  by  Dr.  Gulian  Lan- 
sing, the  missionary"  in  Egypt.  It  came,  like  all  the 
Egyptian  papyri,  rolled  up  in  cylindrical  form,  and 
measures  forty-two  feet  in  lengtli  by  seventeen  inches 
in  width.  It  has  been  unrolled  and  "  backed  up  " 
on  eighteen  sheets  of  cardboard  in  order  to  preserve 


THE    SAGE    LIBRARY.  9 

it.  The  ink  of  the  writing  and  the  colors  employed 
in  some  of  the  vignettes  that  accompany  the  text, 
are  as  bright  and  fresh  as  though  done  yesterday. 
Green  is  the  only  color  that  has  proved  destructive. 
Wherever  it  has  been  used  the  papyrus  is  eaten 
through.  The  nature  and  the  purpose  of  the  Book 
of  the  Dead  ava  still  mattei-.s  of  dispute  among 
Egyptologists,  but  sufficient  is  known  of  it  to  place 
it  among  the  mystical  books  of  the  Egyptian  relig- 
ion, endowed  with  supposed  supernatural  power. 
Some  chapters  of  it  were  always  buried  with  the 
mummy,  evidently  with  the  belief  that  it  possessed 
talismanic  qualities  in  the  warding  olf  of  evil  spirits. 
Next  in  point  of  age  to  the  papyrus  come  the  Arabic- 
Coptic  manuscripts  with  their  illuminated  tests,  and 
then  a  cui-ious  scroll  of  the  Pentateuch  written  in 
the  unpointed  Hebrew,  dating  back  probably  six  or 
seven  hundred  years.  It  is  written  on  goat  skins 
stitched  together  and  rolled  on  (cylinders,  the  whole 
measuring  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  in  length.  It 
was  purchased  from  a  Jewish  Rabbi  in  one  of  the 
synagogues  of  Cairo  by  Dr.  J.  G.  Lansing,  of  the 
Seminary. 

Of  early  printed  books  there  are  quite  a  number 
that  may  be  ranked  as  iiieu.aahala  and  perhaps  a 
half  dozen  that  date  back  to  1480.  The  examples 
of  fine  printing  from  the  celebrated  presses  of  Ko- 
berger,  Aldus,  Froben,  Elzevir,  Stephen,  and  others 
could  not  be  counted  cm  one's  fingers,  nor  tlie  curious 
history  that  accompanies  them  t  ild  in  these  few 
pages.  Several  of  them  came  from  the  lii)rary  of 
^lelancthon  and  contain    his  marginal  ncjtes;  others 


10  THE    SAGE    LIBRAKY. 

are  still  bound  in  their  ancient  bindings  and  are 
blazoned  with  strange  coats  of  arms ;  and  others 
bear  the  library  stamps  and  plates  of  Capuchin  con- 
vents and  Jesuit  colleges,  their  covers  still  clasped 
.with  brass  and  bearing  upon  a  flaming  circle  sup- 
ported by  cherubs  the  name,  "  Jesus." 


II. 

The  Theological  and  Religious  Books. 

In  place  of  a  long  display  of  titles  the  statement 
may  be  accepted  that  the  Sage  Library  contains  in 
modern  books  almost  everything  of  value  in  the  dif- 
ferent branches  of  study,  and  if  these  notes  speak 
of  little  known  volumes,  it  is  fo]'  the  very  reason  that 
they  are  little  known.  One  object  of  this  publication 
is  to  intimate  to  students  where  many  of  the  origi 
nal  sources  of  knowledge  may  be  found,  and  perhaps 
the  best  waj  of  indicating  what  the  library  possesses 
is  to  recite  the  titles  of  some  of  the  rare  books  in 
the  various  departments. 

The  field  of  ecclesiastical  history  is  a  large  one. 
The  average  student  of  to-day  usually  contents  him- 
self with  the  modern  writers,  Mosheim,  Neander, 
Hagenbach,  Schaff ;  but  those  v. ho  seek  the  early 
writers  for  reference  and  confirmati(m  maj^  find  the 
necessary  volumes  in  the  Sage  Libraiy.  •  Here  one 
may  see  the  Greek  historians,  Eusebius,  Socrates, 
Theoderet,  Sozemeu,  and  Evagrius,  in  many  editions, 
including  the  rare  Stephens'  edition  (Paris,  1544:)  ; 
and  also  the  later  Greek  historian,  Nicephorus  Cal- 
listus,  (2  fols.,  Paris,  1630,)  known  as  "The  Ecclesi- 


THE    SAGE   LIBRARY.  11 

i 

astical  Thuc^ydides,"  from  his  elegance  of  style,  and 
also  as  "  The  Theological  Pliny,"  because  of  the 
strange  stories  that  he  tells.  Among  the  medireval 
historians  are  Cassiodorus,  Bede,  Gregory  of  Tours 
Haimo,  Anastasius,  and  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
writers  who  were  stirred  into  activity  by  the  Counter- 
Reformation,  Barouius  with  the  continuations  of 
Raynal  et  al,  the  refutations  of  Causabon,  Spanheim, 
Basnage,  and  the  collections  of  the  Italian  scholars, 
Muratori,  Gallandi,  Zaccaria,  Assemani,  and  Mai. 
The  French  Catholic  historians,  many  of  theui  noted 
for  their  erudition  and  brilliancy  of  style,  like  Bos- 
suet,  Fleury,  Natalis  Alexander,  Tillemont,  Dupiu, 
appear  in  the  early  editions,  and  beside  these  indi 
vidual  works  there  are  the  collections  of  the  Bene 
dictine  editors,  Mabillon,  Montfaucon,  D'Achery, 
Martene,  Durand,  Fez. 

Protestant  Church  history'  properly  begins  with 
the  great  work  of  Flaccius  Illyricus  and  others, 
called  "  The  Magdeburg  Centuries,"  of  which  the 
original  edition  in  thirteen  folios  (Basle,  1559,)  is  in 
the  librar}'.  It  is  the  great  fountain-head  from 
which  modern  historians  have  filtered  out  special 
treatises,  and  was  the  raison  d'etre  of  the  Barouius 
Annales  which  was  offered  as  a  refutation  of  it.  It 
comprises  thirteen  centuries  of  church  history, 
devoting  a  volume  to  each  century  on  the  same  plan 
that  Mosheim  afterward  adopted.  Hottinger, 
Spanheim,  Ai'iiold,  Schrockh,  Venema,  Henke, 
Neander,  and  the  more  modern  historians  are,  of 
course,  well  represented.  Upon  general  church 
history   the   hbrary   probably    contains    over    two 


12  ,      THE    SAGE    LIBRARY. 

tbousaucl  volumes,  and  in  special  brandies  as  many 
more.  There  are  upwards  of  a  hundred  and  fifty 
church  histories  of  England  alone,  and  of  France, 
Germany,  and  America  in  the  same  relative  propor- 
tion. All  the  side  branches,  such  as  the  history  of 
the  councils  (Labbe,  Harduin,  Hefele  and  others), 
church  discipline,  heresies,  controversies,  sects, 
denominations,  are  well  supplied  with  the  original 
editions ;  and,  in  fact,  in  this  department  of  ecclesi- 
astical history,  the  library  is  so  rich  that  it  would 
require  a  special  student  to  point  out  what  few 
books  it  may  lack  in  completeness. 

Exegesis  and  hermeneutics  in  their  comprehen- 
sive scope  make  up  the  largest  department  of  the 
library,  several  thousand  volumes  being  devoted  to 
them.  The  Jewish,  Patristic  and  Mediaeval  exegetes 
may  be  pa<-sed  over  without  comment,  though  here 
there  are  some  rare  editions  of  Augustine,  Ambrose, 
Jerome,  Theophylactus,  Aquinas,  and  others.  Ex- 
egesis took  a  new  start  in  the  sixteenth  century 
with  the  reformers  Luther,  Calvin,  Melancthon, 
Zwingli,  Beza.  It  increased  in  the  seventeenth  and 
eighteenth  centuries  with  Grotius,  Vitringa,  Poole, 
Henry,  and  in  the  present  century  the  commentators 
and  commentaries  are  almost  beyond  numbering. 
The  library  possesses  probably  twenty-five  hundred 
volumes  of  exegetical  and  practical  expositions  on 
the  whole  or  the  separate  books  of  the  Bible. 
Hermeneutics,  the  science  of  interpretation  or  the 
theory  of  exegesis,  is  of  comparatively  modern 
origin.  The  founders  of  the  science  were  Flacius, 
Franz,    Glassius,    who    were   followed   by   Grotius, 


THE    SAGE    LIBRARY.  13 

Bengel,  Ei'uesti,  Semler,  Beck.  In  this  century  the 
literature  of  the  subject  has  expanded  enormously, 
especially  in  the  hands  of  the  Gei'maus,  the  great 
modern  book  makers.  These  subjects,  in  connection 
with  Biblical  introductions,  Jewish  antiquities,  and 
Biblical  theolog}-,  have  attracted  so  much  attention 
of  late,  both  in  discovery  and  controversy,  that 
special  care  has  been  given  to  them,  with  the  result 
of  having  a  complement  of  the  best  authorities. 

To  the  esegetical  <lepartment  belongs  a  notable 
collection  of  different  versions  and  translations  of 
the  Bible  with  the  ftie  similes  and  autotype  repro 
ductions  of  the  principal  codices  such  as  the  Alex- 
andrian, Sinaitic,  Vatican,  and  the  Tischendorf  texts 
The  priuted  versions  of  the  Bible  in  Greek,  Hebrew, 
Latin,  Coptic,  Arabic,  Syriac  and  in  almost  all  the 
modern  languages,  fill  an  entire  alcove  and  include 
ever^-thing  of  critical  value  and  many  editions  of 
great  rarity.  Here  also  may  be  found  the  different 
polyglot  Bibles,  the  London,  the  Pai'is,  the  Beza, 
the  Bielefeld,  the  Bagster,  the  hexai^las,  and  the 
more  recent  poh'glots  of  separate  books.  Of  the 
huge  brass  clas])ed  folios  in  Dutch,  without  whicli 
in  the  ancient  days  no  Dutch  family  could  properly 
keep  track  of  itself,  the  library  lias  a  formidable 
array,  including  several  Elzevirs  that  have  been 
handed  down  from  the  Knickerbockers  of  Kew  York 
in  whose  families  the  Dutch  ns  a  language  has  long- 
since  expired.  The  rare  and  the  curious  in  printing 
and  binding  appear  here  again  in  the  Koburgcr 
Latin  Bibles  with  their  illuminated  initials  iuid 
hog  skin    covers;    in  the   Widnianstadt    edilicn   <if 


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the  Peschito  with  the  Svriac  portion  of  the  title 
printed  in  black  with  red  -vowel  points ;  in  the 
Anselni  edition  of  the  Greek  (1521),  in  the  rare 
duodecimo  of  the  ancient  and  modern  Greek 
(Hale-Saxon,  1710,)  printed  at  the  expense  of 
Sophia  Louisa,  Queen  of  Prussia ;  in  the  Miinster 
Hebrew  Bible  printed  b}'  Froben  and  prohibited  by 
the  Papacy,  the  covers  of  which  still  bear  the  gold 
lettering-,  "  S.  H.  M.,  1561 "  ;  in  the  Bomberg  He- 
brew Bible  (Venice,  1521.)  with  its  curiously  orna- 
mented borders  and  capitals  ;  and  in  the  scarce 
Hebrew  Bible  of  Hutter  (Hamburg,  1588,)  with  the 
radicals  printed  in  black  and  the  serviles  hollow. 

To  the  exegetical  department  also  belongs  a  large 
collection  of  dictionaries  upon  which  the  library 
plumes  itself  somewhat.  From  the  Hierogh'phic, 
the  Assyrian,  the  Sanskrit,  the  Chinese,  the  Hebrew, 
and  the  Arabic,  down  to  the  English,  the  French,  the 
German,  the  Icelandic,  the  Russian,  even  the  Vola- 
piik  of  to-day,  the  list  is  very  complete.  Then  there 
are  the  pohglot  lexicons,  like  that  of  Meninski  in 
Arabic,  Persian  and  Turkish,  Canes  in  Spanish, 
Latin  and  Arabic,  and  the  well-known  heptaglot  of 
Castell.  Many  of  the  early  dictionaries,  those  of 
Reuchlin,  Hesychius,  Calepinus,  may  be  found  in 
the  original  editions,  and  the  Hebrew-Chaldee  and 
Greek  lexicons  would  make  a  small  library  of  them- 
selves. The  collecting  of  these  volumes  has  taken 
much  time  and  patience,  some  of  them  having  been 
sought  after  for  years  before  finding  them.  Only  a 
short  time  ago  one  of  the  important  dictionaries, 
an   order  for  which  had  been    sent  out  ten  years 


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ago,  was  picked  up  in  China,  thanks  to  our  Dr. 
Talmage  of  missionary  fame.  The  grammars,  like 
the  dictionaries,  embrace  almost  every  language 
that  possesses  a  literature.  There  are  over  two 
hundred  and  fifty  works  on  the  Hebrew  and  the 
Greek  grammars  alone,  aside  from  the  exegetical 
and  philological  works  that  incidentally  treat  of 
them,  and  in  the  other  languages  probably  double 
that  number.  The  necessary  text  books  to  study 
almost  any  language  are  at  hand,  and  though, 
as  yet,  there  has  been  no  student  of  the  Romaic,  the 
Armenian,  or  the  Tungalee  inquiring  for  books,  yet 
when  such  a  student  does  appear  the  library  will  be 
prepared  to  supply  his  wants 

The  oldest  volumes  in  the  department  of  docti'inal 
theology  are  the  Sententiarum  Libri  of  Peter  Lom- 
bard and  the  Summa  Theologica  of  Alexander  de 
Ales,  both  works  having  been  printed  about  1480. 
Lombard  was  the  first  of  the  scholastics  to  treat 
dogmatics  in  a  scientific  way,  though  before  him 
Anselm,  Eoscellin  and  Abelard  had  given-  a  new  life 
to  theology  by  trying  to  reconcile  it  with  philosophy. 
Following  him  came  Alexander  de  Ales,  Albertus 
Magnus,  Aquinas,  Bonaventura,  Gabriel  Biel,  and 
the  mystics  Eckart,  Tauler.  Gerson.  The  scholastic 
theologians  are  well  represented  in  fine  editions, 
some  of  them  quite  rare,  but  their  works  are  little 
referred  to  in  these  days  except  occasionally  by  some 
special  student  or  collector  of  rare  printing. 

Modern  evangelical  theology  did  not  properly 
begin  until  the  time  of  Melancthon.  All  the  works 
of  the  writers  of  the  Refoiination  period,  Luther, 


16  THE    SAGE    LIBRARY. 

Calvin,  Chemnitz,  Himnius,  Hutter,  Gerhaidt,  Qiien- 
stedt,  Calov,  Halloz,  Zwiugli,  Bulliuger,  Musculus, 
may  be  found  in  fine  copies,  as  well  as  the  works  of 
the  later  writers,  Keckerinan,  Alsted,  Altiug-,  Bur- 
mann,  Heidanus,  Heidegoer,  Buddeus,  Carzov,  Eam- 
bach,  Michaelis,  Doderlein,  Morus,  and,  in  opposition, 
the  Eoman  Catholic  writers,  Bellarmin,  Canisiiis, 
Maldonat,  Becan.  It  would  be  quite  impossible  to 
enumerate  the  books  of  the  moflern  theok)giaus, 
especially  those  of  the  Germans  who  write  as  though 
time  were  of  no  consequence  to  either  writer  or 
reader.  This  is  also  true  of  the  svibjects  of  ethics, 
historical  theology,  polemics,  apologetics,  confes- 
sions, and  the  many  sej^arate  branches  of  systematic 
theology.  In  this  department  of  dogmatics  more 
than  in  any  other  shine  the  long  rows  of  vellum, 
especially  among  the  Dutch  books,  and  many  of  th.e 
bindings,  fresh  and  perfect  as  when  first  made,  still 
bear  coats  of  arms,  devices  and  inscriptions  some- 
what like  a  folio  copy  of  Calvin's  Institutes,  which 
has  around*  a  ducal  crown  the  motto  in  gold  letters  : 
"  ILrni  soit  qui  mal  y  pense." 

Of  the  large  library  of  books  devoted  to  pastoral 
theologv  and  homiletics  the  majority  are  of  modern 
oi'igin.  The  Fathers  treated  these  subjects  slightly, 
and  not  until  after  the  Reformaticm  were  there 
books  of  consequence  put  forth  upon  them.  Eras- 
mus, IMelancthon,  and  principally  Hyperius  founded 
the  science  of  homiletics.  These,  with  such  authors 
as  Chemnitz,  Bamhach,  Gaussen,  Claude,  Vitringa, 
Fenelon,  and  all  the  modern  writers,  from  both  the 
German  and  the  Anglo  American  jDoint  of  view,  fur- 


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17 


iiish  a  department  which  is  probabty  more  faithfully 
studied  in  the  Seminar}-  than  any  other.  The  ser- 
mons of  the  famous  preachers  number  nearly  fifteen 
hundred  volumes,  and  in  this  connection  it  is  worth 
while  to  mention  some  four  hundred  sermons  in 
pamphlet  form,  all  dating-  back  in  the  seventeenth 
and  eighteenth  centuries,  from  the  library,  of  Dr. 
Bethune  :  and  a  collection  of  about  one  hundred  and 
eighty  sermons  preached  throughout  the  United 
States  on  the  death  of  President  Garfield,  presented 
to  the  library  by  Dr.  T.  W.  Chambers.  The  litera- 
ture of  liturgies,  worship  and  hymnology  is  very 
extensive,  but  has  not  a  great  many  rare  or  scarce 
volumes,  with  the  exception  of  Goar,  Assemani, 
Clichtoveo,  Daniel,  and  some  few  others.  The  libra- 
r}"  is  very  thoroughly  equipped  in  this  department, 
especially  in  that  which  relates  to  Dutch  church  ser- 
vice, h^'mns  and  prayer  books.  In  Reformation 
days,  .when  the  persecutors  terrorized  the  Nether- 
lands, spies  listened  at  doors  and  windows,  and  to 
sing  the  Eeformation  music  at  evening  worship  was 
pretty  sure  to  be  attended  by  direful  consequences ; 
but  the  wily  Dutchman  set  the  Psalms  of  David  to 
popular  airs,  and  the  spies  hearing  only  the  latter 
passed  on  thinking  all  was  well.  These  hymn 
books,  with  tlieir  popular  music  and  sacred  words, 
stand  upon  the  shelves  of  the  Sage  Library  to-day, 
as  silent  witnesses  to  the  strong  faith  of  the  Dutch 
during  that  fierce  hail  of  persecution  which  culmina- 
ted with  Alva. 


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III. 

Philological,  Historical,  Scikntific  and 
Art  Books. 

Tliis  last  paper  has  been  resei'ved  for  a  i-amble 
among-  the  books  in  the  secuLir  department  of  the 
library,  though  the  attempt  to  describe  them  in  so 
short  a  space  mast  of  necessity  be  attended  by  in- 
complete results. 

When  it  is  said  that  there  are  upwards  of  two 
hundred  histories  of  England,  and  that  the  histori- 
cal works  of  other  connti'ies  are  in  proportion,  it  will 
be  understood  that  the  library  possesses  about  all  the 
historical  treatises  of  a  general  nature  worth  possess- 
ing, from  Herodotus  and  Diodorus  to  Bancroft  and 
Freeman.  And  these  deal  not  with  Europe  and 
America  alone,  but  with  Egypt,  Assyria,  India, 
Japan.  All  modei-n  books  that  in  any  way  throw 
light  upon  Bible  lands  or  Bible  times  are  obtained 
as  soon  as  issue;!.  Egyptology  is  a  special  branch, 
for  the  Hierogh'phic  is  an  optional  stud}'  in  the 
Seminary.  All  the  dictionaries,  grammars,  texts, 
inscriptions,  fac  similes  ;  all  the  works  of  the  great 
Egyptologists,  ChamiDolion,  Lepsius,  Erugsch,  Eiich, 
Duemichen,  Mariette,  Sayce  ;  all  the  histories,  trav- 
els, and  explorations,  have  been  gathered  together 
fr.)m  the  book  markets  of  Europe,  and  it  is  only  in 
special  treatises  and  exhibits  that  this  department 
lacks  completeness  The  alcove  devoted  to  inscrip- 
tions is  well  tilled,  embracing  as  it  does  fac  similes 
and  readings  of  the  Assj'rian,  Arabic,  Cufic,  Coptic, 
Greek  and  Latin,  with  many  photographic  and  col- 


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ored  pliites  bound  in  huge  elephant  folios  requir- 
ing sejj.arate  cases  to  hold  them. 

The  subject  of  travels  is  another  extensive  one, 
the  tours  in  Palestine  alone  embracing  several  hun- 
dred volumes.  And  here  may  be  found  some  rare 
publications,  the  black  letter  edition  of  Hakluyt's 
Voyaoes  (1599),  the  Cook  voyages,  Denon,  Forbes, 
Harris,  Pocock,  Clarke,  Bruce,  Pennant,  Kerr,  Dib- 
din,  Maundevile,  Irby  and  Mangles,  Kaempfer,  Mar- 
co Polo,  etc.  By  the  side  of  the  early  volumes  of 
travel  from  which  Moore  culled  the  data  of  Lalla 
Rookh  aud  Beckford  his  Vathek,  stand  the  more 
reliable  modern  works  of  Burton,  Burckhardt,  Pal- 
mer, Niebuhr,  and  the  Schlagenweits  The  books 
of  travel  relating  to  America  comprise  many  of  the 
pioueer  narratives,  the  Jesuit  Relations,  the  Margry 
Meiiioires,  the  Memoires  D'Amerique,  the  Kalm 
Travels,  and  the  Dutch  accounts  of  the  early  settle- 
ments in  this  country. 

There  are  over  three  thousand  volumes  of  biogra- 
phy and  letters,  embracing  the  lives  of  all  kinds  and 
luanners  of  men,  without  including  the  collected  sets 
of  works  like  the  Allgemeine  Deutsche  Biographie. 
Here  again  are  books  seldom  met  with,  such  as  the 
Epistolae  Obscurorum  Virorum  attributed  to  Hutten, 
tlie  Icones  Virorum  IlUistrium  of  Beza,  and  the 
Vitae  Eruditorum  of  Adam,  from  which  Bayle,  Bail- 
let,  and  others  compiled  so  many  of  their  encyclopedic 
articles.  Of  ccnirse  modern  biography  is  well  cared 
for.  for  there  is  no  more  entertaining,  instructive 
and  well-read  branch  of  literature  than  that  which 
relates  tlie  experiences  of  men. 


20  THE    SAGE    LIBKARY. 

la  works  on  macbauics  the  libraiT  is  intentionally 
weak,  that  subject   not  being   at  all   in  the  line  of 
study  pursued  in  the  Seminary.     In  all  that  relates 
to  natural  science  it  is,  on  the  contrary,  quite  strong, 
especially  in  matters  trenching  upon  evolution,  eth- 
nology,  geology,  and   the  relations  of  science  and 
religion.     The   Huxley s,    Darwins,    Tyndales,   Clif- 
fords, whatever  may  be  their  views,  are  kept  on  the 
shelves  and  opposite  to  them  stand   the  apologetic 
works,    of   Avhich   there    are    hundreds,    that  cross 
swords    with    science,    especially    on    the   evolution 
theory.     Zoology,  botany,  ornithology,  and  natural 
history  in  general  are  fairly  complete  with  some  i-are 
volumes,  such  as  the  original  double  elephant  folio 
edition  of  Audubon's  Birds  of  America  (a  presenta- 
tion copy  from   the   author  to   the  father-in-law  of 
Col.    Sage,  through    whom  it  came  to   the  library), 
Bufiton  complete  in  40  vols.,  Paxton's  Magazine  of 
Botany  illustrated  with  colored  plates,  and  Wilson's 
Birds. 

The  department  of  the  fine  arts  is  well  stocked 
with  many  valuable  and  beautifully  bound  volumes, 
embracing  all  the  works  that  any  student  could  rea- 
sonably desire.  There  are  nearly  a  thousand  vol- 
umes of  poetry  and  the  drama,  including  rare  edi- 
tions- of  Sidney,  Milton,  Akenside,  Spenser,  and 
others.  English  poetry  predominates,  though  not 
exclusively  so.  Almost  all  the  German,  French, 
Italian,  Latin,  and  Dutch  poets  appear  in  the  differ- 
ent languages,  and  there  are  fine  copies  of  Herdfr, 
Klopstock,  Marot,  Villon,  Hugo,  Vidae.  Painting 
and   sculpture  form   a  conspicuous   department  by 


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reason    of    the  lari^e  illustrated  volmnes  and  their 
artistic  bindings.     It  is  quite  complete,  especially  in 
the   modern  French    and  German    writers   on  art, 
such  as  Perrot  and  Chipiez,  Gavard,  Gautier,  Mantz. 
Veron,     Schnasse.    Ltibke,    Kiig-ler,    Wincklemann, 
Miiller.     The  great  history  of  Early  Christian  Art, 
with  several  volumes  of  plates  by  Garruci,  the  work 
on  the  Catacombs  by  De  Rossi,  the  folios  of  Japan- 
ese Art  by  Anderson,  the  volumes  of  Paul  Lacroix, 
and  those  of  D'Agincourt,  Wincklemann,  and  Champ- 
lin  are  worthy    of   special    mention.     The  English 
writers  on  art  of  the  Ruskin  school  are  also  repre- 
sented, but  unfortunately  they  are  more  remarkable 
for  their  brilliant  rhetoric  than  for  their  sound  ideas. 
The  books  on  architecture  are  extensive  and  valu- 
able fi'ora  their  illustrations,  especially  in  those  vol- 
umes which  attempt  the  restoration  of  ancient  cities 
and  buildings,  such  as  Place's  Ninive  et  L'Assyrie, 
Botta's  Monument  de  Ninive,  Lepsius   Denkmiiler, 
Gailhabaud,  Dugdale,  Viollet  le  Due,  Stuart,  Dart, 
Britton,    Pugin.     The  subject  is  closely  related  to 
that  of  excavations  and  archaeological  researches,  re- 
garding which  there  are  many  publications  of  scien- 
tific  expeditions,  such  as   those  of  Oppert,  Uenan, 
Mover,  Conze,  Reiss  andStiibel,  and  others,  with  tin; 
older  w(n"ks  of  Montfaucon,  Ciampini,  Spence  Gro- 
novius,  Graevius,  Gell,    Layard,   Schliemann.     Nu- 
mismatics, engraved  gems  and  stones  form  a  library 
(jf  themselves,  and   here  may  be  found   a  com])leto 
copy  of  that  rare  set  of  books,  Mioimet'sDescri|)tion 
de  Medailles  Antiques,   valued    at   several  hundred 
dollars,    two    copies    of     Visconti's     Iconographie 


22  THE    SAGE    LIBRARY, 

Grecque  et  Romain  with  the  plates,  beside  the  other 
well-known  authorities  such  as  Bockh,  Cavedoni, 
King,  Saulcy,  Eckhel. 

Thanks  in  great  part  to  the  generosity  of  a  New 
York  lady,  the  library  possesses  some  hundred  or 
more  volumes  on  Music,  its  theory  and  practice  ; 
and  thanks  to  the  liberal  views  of  its  committee  on 
selection,  it  also  possesses  a  number  of  the  complete 
sets  of  the  best  novelists, — De  Foe,  Scott,  Thackeray, 
Hawthorne,  Dickens,  George  Eliot,  Kingsley,  Ebers, 
Wallace,  George  Sand,  Hugo,  Jean  Paal.  The  es- 
sa^dsts  and  writers  of  what,  for  lack  of  a  better 
name,  is  called  general  literature,  baffle  all  descrip- 
tion None  of  the  works  is  very  rare,  yet  all  of 
them  go  to  make  up  a  much-read  and  undoubtedly 
profitable  class  of  books.  The  historians  of  litera- 
ture are  again  innumerable  and  again  their  books 
are  not  very  rare,  except  in  the  Arabic  department, 
where  such  works  as  those  of  Al-Makkari  and  Ham- 
mer-Purgstall,  with  some  manuscript  histories  of  the 
Arabian  poets,  are  of  more  than  ordinary  worth* 
Tiraboschi's  Storia  della  Letteratura  Italiana  and 
Schoell's  Histoire  de  la  Grecque  Profane,  though 
iuvalualile  to  the  student  of  literature,  are  not  rare 
from  a  bookseller's  point  of  view. 

The  philosojDhical  department  (not  including  the 
classical  writings,  of  which  there  are  over  two  thous- 
and volumes)  is  well  supplied  with  the  works  of  all 
the  German,  French,  and  English  philosophers,  and 
thf*re  are  interesting  groups  of  books  on  side  sub- 
jects, such  as  theosophy  and  mysticism.  Here  are 
the  works  of   those  ancients  of   which  one  sees  so 


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much  iu  vague  reference  and  knows  so  little  about 
in  reality, — Arnold.  Tauler,  Gerson,  Bulnue,  Galen, 
Molinos,  Madame  Guyon.  Another  step  brings  us 
before  the  writings  of  those  still  more  famous  men 
who  taught  the  kabbala  and  practiced  alchemy  and 
magic,  Paracelsus,  John  Pico  Count  of  Mirandula, 
Reuchlin,  Cornelius  Agrippa.  The  literature  of  the 
uncanny,  the  history-  of  oracles,  witchcraft,  demo- 
nology,  and  mediaeval  wonders,  if  not  of  much  prac- 
tical worth,  is  at  least  interesting  and  the  library 
has  plenty  of  it.  Metaphysics,  mental  science,  logic, 
and  b  loks  of  that  class  are  for  the  mcin  of  modern 
origin,  and  it  is  only  necessary  to  state  that  the 
library  has  a  complement  of  them.  There  are  sev- 
eral hundred  volinnes  on  civil  and  ecclesiastical  law, 
including  such  works  as  Cujacius  (13  fols.),  Justel, 
Bracton,  the  Corpus  Juris  Civilis,  and  the  Corpus 
Juris  Canonici,  works  which,  it  may  be  safely  said,  are 
not  consulted  hiuch  by  the  average  Americnn  law 
student.  In  this  department,  as  in  merliciiie,  the 
attempt  has  not  been  to  make  a  complete  library, 
but  only  to  obtain  those  general  works  and  treatises 
on  the  literature  of  the  subjects  which  serve  as  in 
troductions  to  speci;)l  study. 

In  reference  books  it  lias  Ijeen  the  aim  to  secure 
almost  everything  of  value.  Encyclopedic  knowl- 
edge is  [irimarily  the  demand  of  the  age,  ami  posi 
five  knowledge  about  sine  one  thing  is  perlia])s  not 
so  useful  as  general  knowledge  of  where  things  may 
be  fiiuiid  ill  l)o()ks.  The  encyclopedia  is  in<lis]^ensa 
blf  if  for  no  otlua"  reason  than  tliat  it  jioints  (Uit  the 
literature  of  a  sul)ject.     It  is  tlic  starting  jioiiit  from 


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which  the  study  of  a  subject  begius.  The  library 
has  a  fine  group  of  them  iu  English,  German, 
French,  Dutch,  and  Latin,  including  the  Bayle,  the 
Bi-ockhaus,  the  Hertzog-Phtt,  the  Eotteck-Welcker, 
the  Van  der  Aa,  the  Larousse,  the  Diderot  (35  fols.), 
the  Moreri,  not  to  mention  the  hundreds  of  encyclo- 
pedias on  special  branches.  Bibliography  is  quite 
as  well  maintained,  for  this  is  the  index  of  any  libra- 
ry', the  mariner's  compass  of  all  literature.  Without 
it  one  is  entirely  at  sea.  By  its  aid  any  branch  of 
knowledge  may  be  traced  to  its  source  and  all  the 
literature  of  it  opened  before  one.  It  not  only  tells 
what  has  been  written  upon  certain  subjects ;  it 
gives  the  value  of  books,  the  best  editions,  and 
where  obtainable ;  and  in  the  pui'chase,  as  well  as 
the  practical  use  of  a  library,  it  is  quite  indispensa- 
ble. 

Periodical  literature,  now  that  it  has  been  prop- 
erty indexed  by  Dr.  Poole,  is  becoming  a  great  work- 
ing department  for  those  who  want  an  epitome  of 
facts  and  not  an  encyclopedia  of  rhetoric.  Here 
again  the  library  is  strong  with  about  seventy  of  the 
leading  periodicals  of  America,  England,  France, 
and  Germany.  They  are  kept  on  file  until  the  vol- 
umes are  completed  and  are  then  bound  and  placed 
upon  the  shelves.  Many  of  the  famous  reviews  are 
complete  from  their  beginning,  notabl}'  the  Gentle- 
rnait's  3faf/fiziti e'daiing  back  to  1731. 

The  whole  library  is  catalogued  upon  cards  ar- 
ranged in  long  trays  and  the  entries  are  under  auth- 
or, title,  subject,  and  class,  so  that  one  has  little 
difficulty  in  finding  what  he  wants  provided  he  has 


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the  remotest  idea  of  his  subject.  A  great  many 
callers  have  not  this  "remotest  idea,"  lut  str.'ugely 
enough  fancy  the  librarian  a  mind  rerder  vvho  cnn 
tell  them  what  thev  want  by  looking  at  them. 
Sometimes  a  librarian  is  able  to  do  this,  but  he  ch  es 
not  find  the  rule  a  good  one  for  universal  applica- 
tion. The  shelf  arrangement  is  entirely  by  sub- 
jects, and  in  the  theological  department  is  designed 
to  supplement  the  course  of  instruction  in  the  Semi 
narv,  the  literature  of  each  chair  being  bv  itself. 
There  are  forty  two  alcoves,  each  one  having  a  nura- 
bex",  and  the  reference  is  made  from  the  catalogues 
to  the  numbers.  Within  the  alcove  the  subjects  are 
indicated  by  labels,  and  as  there  are  not  more  than 
half  a  dozen  subjects  in  each  alcove,  there  is  little 
difiSculty  in  finding  what  is  desired. 


APPENDIX. 

Needs  of  the  Library. 

In  this  place  it  may  not  be  inappropriate  to  sug- 
gest in  what  way  those  pei'sons  who  are  interested 
in  the  Church  and  her  institutions  may  aid  in  still 
further  strengthening  this  fine  collection  of  books. 
The  needs  of  the  library  are  briefly  these  : 

First  :  The  publications,  whether  in  book  or 
pamphlet  form,  of  the  ministers  and  members  of  the 
Church.  As  a  matter  of  record  copies  of  publica- 
tions by  our  own  men  should  be  in  the  Sage  Library 

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and  it  is  confident!}'  hoped  that  each  alumnus  will  take 
S'lfficient  interest  in  the  library  to  forward  to  it  a 
complete  set  of  his  publications,  if  the}'  be  not  there 
already. 

Second:  All  publications  relating  to  the  history 
of  the  Dutch  Cluu'ch  in  general  or  the  individual 
churches,  such  as  historical  sermons,  biographical 
sketches,  funeral  discourses,  year-books,  inaugural 
addresses,  and  monographs  of  ever}'  kind.  Here 
again  the  genercjsity  of  the  author  is  appealed  to. 

Third  :  Books  in  the  Dutch  language.  The  only 
considerable  collection  of  Dutch  literature  in  Ameri- 
ca is  with  this  institution,  where  it  forms  a  special 
feature  The  families  of  Dutch  extraction  wherein 
the  language  has  been  lost  but  the  books  preserved 
could  easily  afford  to  add  such  volumes  to  the  main 
collection  here.  It  is  not  desirable  to  have  duplicate 
copies  of  general  works,  and  it  would  therefore  be 
advisable  to  write  to  the  Librarian  stating  what 
could  be  given  before  forwarding  the  books. 

FoDRTH :  Rare,  old,  out  of  print,  and  little  used 
books.  There  are  some  of  these  in  almost  every 
household  which,  because  of  their  being  printed  in 
foreign  or  dead  languages,  are  perhaps  of  no  practi- 
cal value  to  their  possessors.  The  Sage  Library  is 
the  proper  place  for  them.  It  is  impossible  to  say 
at  what  moment  some  scholar  will  find  himself  in 
great  need  of  just  such  works  and  he  would  naturally 
seek  them  in  such  an  institution  as  this. 

Fifth  :  Money  for  the  purchase  of  books.  The 
endowments  of  the  hbrary  are  not  sufficient  to  keep 


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it  as  fully  abreast  of  the  times  iu  contemporary  lit 
eratare  as  could  be  wished  for,  and  there  are  many 
desirable  books  of  ancient  date  too  costh'  to  be  pur- 
chased out  of  the  present  income.  A  fund  that 
would  yield  one  thousand  dollars  a  year  would  be  of 
great  benefit. 

.  Sixth  :  Ten  thousand  dollars  for  a  wing  to  the 
present  building  to  accommodate  the  increase  of  the 
library.  Some  of  the  departments  are  already  un- 
comfortably crowded  and,  in  a  very  few  years  at  the 
outside,  books  will  have  to  be  heaped  upon  the  floor 
unless  additional  accommodations  are  furnished. 
For  the  sum  named  an  annex  capable  of  holding 
twenty-five  thousand  volumes  could  be  built.  It  is 
hoped  that  some  genei'ous  friend  of  the  Chvu-ch  will 
in  this  way  facilitate  the  growth  and  prosperity  of 
what  promises  to  be  one  of  the  finest  theological 
libraries  in  America. 


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